Dedicated to the dissemination of scholarly and professional information, Purdue University Press... more Dedicated to the dissemination of scholarly and professional information, Purdue University Press selects, develops, and distributes quality resources in several key subject areas for which its parent university is famous, including business, technology, health, veterinary medicine, and other selected disciplines in the humanities and sciences. CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, the peer-reviewed, full-text, and open-access learned journal in the humanities and social sciences, publishes new scholarship following tenets of the discipline of comparative literature and the field of cultural studies designated as "comparative cultural studies." Publications in the journal are indexed in the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (Chadwyck-Healey), the Arts and Humanities Citation Index (Thomson Reuters ISI), the Humanities Index (Wilson), Humanities International Complete (EBSCO), the International Bibliography of the Modern Language Association of America, and Scopus (Elsevier). The journal is affiliated with the Purdue University Press monograph series of Books in Comparative Cultural Studies. Contact:
Littérature, langages et arts: rencontres et création, 2007
L'épistémologie contemporaine, par toutes ses composantes, semble se trouver sous l'incidence de ... more L'épistémologie contemporaine, par toutes ses composantes, semble se trouver sous l'incidence de la crise, à cause du conflit entre deux paradigmes dominants, la techno -science et la sciences des morphogenèses. Précédée, en diachronie, par une longue histoire de la poétique de la crise (de ce point de vue, on peut rappeller la bataille des Anciens et des Modernes et la crise similaire manifestée pendant la période d'entre les guerres), la société d'aujourd'hui est partagée entre deux mentalités en conflit. La première est centrée sur la valeur quantitative du matériel, tandis que la deuxième postule l'ascendence du mental en tant que producteur et bénéficiaire d'information. La situation de crise est déterminée aussi par le conflit latent qui existe entre uniforme -polyforme, continu -discontinu et reductionisme -holisme, ce qui
This paper traces the trajectory of Eastern European culture following its acute and deliberate s... more This paper traces the trajectory of Eastern European culture following its acute and deliberate separation from the communist political system, a separation that resulted in a conscious quest for a self led by the literatures reborn after the mechanism of ideological oppression disappeared. The effect is a permanent redefinition of national cultural positions with reference to the European centre, joined to a revision of aesthetic criteria that allow peripheral cultural 'voices' to interact on the Western scene. The stated aim is for 'marginal literature' to participate actively in the European circulation of cultural production, which entails the necessity of invoking studies that centre on European interferences, as well as comparative analyses of the status of other marginal post-communist literatures, which found a solution for their identity problem by supporting a national cultural voice already heard in a European context. The case of Romania and, in particular, the work of Adrian Marino, form the focus of the present discussion. keywords Adrian Marino, identity discourse, Romanian post-totalitarian culture, European integration, multicultural interaction 'Romanian cultural identity', organized around certain minimal cultural topoi which define dichotomies that are sometimes excessively artificial: these include simple ruralism versus urbanism, culturally focused localism versus Eurocentrism, a questioning of narrow cultural nationalism versus the cult of the 'national' writer, exaggerated 'cultural patriotism' versus an acute consciousness of Romania's marginal location. Adrian Marino and his pre-and post-totalitarian discourse Adrian Marino has experienced a double-rooted identity: one during the totalitarian epoch and its dominant ideology, in a South-eastern European culture subjected to both the Communist Centre and to the Periphery, and a post-totalitarian identity open to the ever-powerful values of European freedom and cultural interdialogue. Characterized by a double-oriented 'discourse', his most representative books published before the fall of the Communist regime in 1989 -Opera lui Alexandru Macedonski/Alexandru Macedonski's Work (1967) and Modern, modernism, modernitate/Modern, Modernism, Modernity (1969) -exemplify the covert strategies by which contemporary critics eluded the 'dictatorship of meaning and representation' and filtered what literary work of the Stalinist period appeared valid. Nevertheless, his writings are representative of the so-called 'cultural resistance', an aesthetic rebellion against all types of ideological conditioning. A Herder laureate (1983), he was a political prisoner of the regime for his pro-European ideas , being deported to Baragan (1957-63). Marino was editor of Cahiers roumains d'études littéraires, author of several works of literary history, theory, and criticism (Viaţa lui Alexandru Macedonski/Alexandru Macedonski's Life (1965), Introducere în critica literară/Introduction to Literary Critique (1968; 2nd revised edition, 2007), Dicţionar de idei literare/The Dictionary of Literary Ideas, i (1973), L'herméneutiques de Mircea Eliade (Paris, 1980), Etiemble ou le comparatisme militant (Paris, 1982), Comparatisme et théorie de la littérature (Paris, 1988), Biografia ideii de literatură/The Biography of Literature, i-vii (1992Literature, i-vii ( -2003))), as well as essays, articles, memorials (Evadări în lumea liberă/Escaping to the Free World (1993), Pentru Europa/Pro Europe (1995; 2nd edition, revised and expanded, 2005), Cenzura în România/Romanian Censorship (2000), În dialog cu Sorin Antohi/Adrian Marino in Conversation with Sorin Antohi (2001), Libertate şi cenzură în România. Începuturi/Freedom and Censorship in Romania. The Beginnings (2005), Viaţa unui om singur/The Life of a Lonely Man (2010)). After 1989, a turning-point in the development of Romanian culture, Marino actively pleaded for pro-European integration in books discussing the 'Third Discourse', a cultural alternative for redefining post-totalitarian cultures, such as Pentru Europa/Pro Europe (1995) and Al treilea discurs. Cultură, ideologie si politică în România/The Third Discourse. Culture, Ideology and Politics in Romania (2001). His important remarks on the 'cultural colonization' concept, the aesthetic rejection of all ideological conditioning and the reconsideration of Romanianness in terms of intercultural dialogue with Europe by means of literary formulae compatible with the Western creative spirit, are key elements in his post-totalitarian writings. His vivid diary, suggestively entitled Viata unui om singur/The Life of a Lonely Man (2010),
Communication Interculturelle et Littérature Cod CNCSIS 489 / 2008 Abonamentele se fac la sediul ... more Communication Interculturelle et Littérature Cod CNCSIS 489 / 2008 Abonamentele se fac la sediul redacţiei, Str. Domnească, nr. 111, Galaţi, cod 800008, prin mandat poştal pe numele Simona Antofi. Preţurile la abonamente sunt: 3 luni-30 lei; 6 luni-60 lei ; 12 luni-120 lei. Abonamentele pentru străinătate se fac achitând costul la redacţie. După achitarea abonamentului, aşteptăm prin fax sau email adresa dvs. de expediţie pentru a vă putea trimite revista. Coordonator și editor de număr: Prof. dr. Simona Antofi, Prof. dr. Nicoleta Ifrim, Asist. dr. Elena Botezatu. Volumul conține o selecție a lucrărilor prezentate în cadrul Conferinței Internaționale a Școlii Doctorale IOSUD Galati, 2-3 iunie 2016, Universitatea "Dunărea de Jos‛ din Galați, Facultatea de Litere.
Dedicated to the dissemination of scholarly and professional information, Purdue University Press... more Dedicated to the dissemination of scholarly and professional information, Purdue University Press selects, develops, and distributes quality resources in several key subject areas for which its parent university is famous, including business, technology, health, veterinary medicine, and other selected disciplines in the humanities and sciences. CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, the peer-reviewed, full-text, and open-access learned journal in the humanities and social sciences, publishes new scholarship following tenets of the discipline of comparative literature and the field of cultural studies designated as "comparative cultural studies." Publications in the journal are indexed in the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (Chadwyck-Healey), the Arts and Humanities Citation Index (Thomson Reuters ISI), the Humanities Index (Wilson), Humanities International Complete (EBSCO), the International Bibliography of the Modern Language Association of America, and Scopus (Elsevier). The journal is affiliated with the Purdue University Press monograph series of Books in Comparative Cultural Studies. Contact:
In her article "Memory and identity-focused narratives in Tănase's 'lived book'&... more In her article "Memory and identity-focused narratives in Tănase's 'lived book'" Nicoleta Ifrim analyses România mea (My Romania), Virgil Tănase's first book published after the fall of Ceausescu's regime, a collection of interviews in which personal history is fictionalized according to the narrative rules of a "spoken book." The text is representative for the Eastern intellectual travelling to the West, carrying out his own personal post-totalitarian traumas now mirrored in a self-oriented
Our study descriptively presents the main articles published in 'Scânteia tineretului' (1968) in ... more Our study descriptively presents the main articles published in 'Scânteia tineretului' (1968) in order to grasp the ideological lines coordinating the literary production of the time.
Our study presents in detail the main articles published in 'Scânteia tineretului' (1969) in orde... more Our study presents in detail the main articles published in 'Scânteia tineretului' (1969) in order to portray the totalitarian doctrine influencing literature and critical discourse of 1969.
Volume 19 (2017) Issue 2 Article 4 Memory and identity-focused narratives in Tănase's 'lived book... more Volume 19 (2017) Issue 2 Article 4 Memory and identity-focused narratives in Tănase's 'lived book' Memory and identity-focused narratives in T nase's 'lived book'
The Romanian post-communist culture witnesses a process of value re-definition within which the m... more The Romanian post-communist culture witnesses a process of value re-definition within which the memory of the totalitarian experience is mediated through identity-focused literary discourses mirroring the bias between two opposing topoi: the Southeastern space and the West, both of them being interiorized as the "periphery ego" legitimizes its writing in relation with Otherness. The experience of "travelling aboard" entails an existential quest during which Romanianness is constantly called in question: the "ego-graphic" writings are coping with the issue of cultural identity by means of recognition process (Charles Taylor, 1994) enabling the identity-otherness interchangeable game.
Dedicated to the dissemination of scholarly and professional information, Purdue University Press... more Dedicated to the dissemination of scholarly and professional information, Purdue University Press selects, develops, and distributes quality resources in several key subject areas for which its parent university is famous, including business, technology, health, veterinary medicine, and other selected disciplines in the humanities and sciences. CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, the peer-reviewed, full-text, and open-access learned journal in the humanities and social sciences, publishes new scholarship following tenets of the discipline of comparative literature and the field of cultural studies designated as "comparative cultural studies." Publications in the journal are indexed in the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (Chadwyck-Healey), the Arts and Humanities Citation Index (Thomson Reuters ISI), the Humanities Index (Wilson), Humanities International Complete (EBSCO), the International Bibliography of the Modern Language Association of America, and Scopus (Elsevier). The journal is affiliated with the Purdue University Press monograph series of Books in Comparative Cultural Studies. Contact:
Littérature, langages et arts: rencontres et création, 2007
L'épistémologie contemporaine, par toutes ses composantes, semble se trouver sous l'incidence de ... more L'épistémologie contemporaine, par toutes ses composantes, semble se trouver sous l'incidence de la crise, à cause du conflit entre deux paradigmes dominants, la techno -science et la sciences des morphogenèses. Précédée, en diachronie, par une longue histoire de la poétique de la crise (de ce point de vue, on peut rappeller la bataille des Anciens et des Modernes et la crise similaire manifestée pendant la période d'entre les guerres), la société d'aujourd'hui est partagée entre deux mentalités en conflit. La première est centrée sur la valeur quantitative du matériel, tandis que la deuxième postule l'ascendence du mental en tant que producteur et bénéficiaire d'information. La situation de crise est déterminée aussi par le conflit latent qui existe entre uniforme -polyforme, continu -discontinu et reductionisme -holisme, ce qui
This paper traces the trajectory of Eastern European culture following its acute and deliberate s... more This paper traces the trajectory of Eastern European culture following its acute and deliberate separation from the communist political system, a separation that resulted in a conscious quest for a self led by the literatures reborn after the mechanism of ideological oppression disappeared. The effect is a permanent redefinition of national cultural positions with reference to the European centre, joined to a revision of aesthetic criteria that allow peripheral cultural 'voices' to interact on the Western scene. The stated aim is for 'marginal literature' to participate actively in the European circulation of cultural production, which entails the necessity of invoking studies that centre on European interferences, as well as comparative analyses of the status of other marginal post-communist literatures, which found a solution for their identity problem by supporting a national cultural voice already heard in a European context. The case of Romania and, in particular, the work of Adrian Marino, form the focus of the present discussion. keywords Adrian Marino, identity discourse, Romanian post-totalitarian culture, European integration, multicultural interaction 'Romanian cultural identity', organized around certain minimal cultural topoi which define dichotomies that are sometimes excessively artificial: these include simple ruralism versus urbanism, culturally focused localism versus Eurocentrism, a questioning of narrow cultural nationalism versus the cult of the 'national' writer, exaggerated 'cultural patriotism' versus an acute consciousness of Romania's marginal location. Adrian Marino and his pre-and post-totalitarian discourse Adrian Marino has experienced a double-rooted identity: one during the totalitarian epoch and its dominant ideology, in a South-eastern European culture subjected to both the Communist Centre and to the Periphery, and a post-totalitarian identity open to the ever-powerful values of European freedom and cultural interdialogue. Characterized by a double-oriented 'discourse', his most representative books published before the fall of the Communist regime in 1989 -Opera lui Alexandru Macedonski/Alexandru Macedonski's Work (1967) and Modern, modernism, modernitate/Modern, Modernism, Modernity (1969) -exemplify the covert strategies by which contemporary critics eluded the 'dictatorship of meaning and representation' and filtered what literary work of the Stalinist period appeared valid. Nevertheless, his writings are representative of the so-called 'cultural resistance', an aesthetic rebellion against all types of ideological conditioning. A Herder laureate (1983), he was a political prisoner of the regime for his pro-European ideas , being deported to Baragan (1957-63). Marino was editor of Cahiers roumains d'études littéraires, author of several works of literary history, theory, and criticism (Viaţa lui Alexandru Macedonski/Alexandru Macedonski's Life (1965), Introducere în critica literară/Introduction to Literary Critique (1968; 2nd revised edition, 2007), Dicţionar de idei literare/The Dictionary of Literary Ideas, i (1973), L'herméneutiques de Mircea Eliade (Paris, 1980), Etiemble ou le comparatisme militant (Paris, 1982), Comparatisme et théorie de la littérature (Paris, 1988), Biografia ideii de literatură/The Biography of Literature, i-vii (1992Literature, i-vii ( -2003))), as well as essays, articles, memorials (Evadări în lumea liberă/Escaping to the Free World (1993), Pentru Europa/Pro Europe (1995; 2nd edition, revised and expanded, 2005), Cenzura în România/Romanian Censorship (2000), În dialog cu Sorin Antohi/Adrian Marino in Conversation with Sorin Antohi (2001), Libertate şi cenzură în România. Începuturi/Freedom and Censorship in Romania. The Beginnings (2005), Viaţa unui om singur/The Life of a Lonely Man (2010)). After 1989, a turning-point in the development of Romanian culture, Marino actively pleaded for pro-European integration in books discussing the 'Third Discourse', a cultural alternative for redefining post-totalitarian cultures, such as Pentru Europa/Pro Europe (1995) and Al treilea discurs. Cultură, ideologie si politică în România/The Third Discourse. Culture, Ideology and Politics in Romania (2001). His important remarks on the 'cultural colonization' concept, the aesthetic rejection of all ideological conditioning and the reconsideration of Romanianness in terms of intercultural dialogue with Europe by means of literary formulae compatible with the Western creative spirit, are key elements in his post-totalitarian writings. His vivid diary, suggestively entitled Viata unui om singur/The Life of a Lonely Man (2010),
Communication Interculturelle et Littérature Cod CNCSIS 489 / 2008 Abonamentele se fac la sediul ... more Communication Interculturelle et Littérature Cod CNCSIS 489 / 2008 Abonamentele se fac la sediul redacţiei, Str. Domnească, nr. 111, Galaţi, cod 800008, prin mandat poştal pe numele Simona Antofi. Preţurile la abonamente sunt: 3 luni-30 lei; 6 luni-60 lei ; 12 luni-120 lei. Abonamentele pentru străinătate se fac achitând costul la redacţie. După achitarea abonamentului, aşteptăm prin fax sau email adresa dvs. de expediţie pentru a vă putea trimite revista. Coordonator și editor de număr: Prof. dr. Simona Antofi, Prof. dr. Nicoleta Ifrim, Asist. dr. Elena Botezatu. Volumul conține o selecție a lucrărilor prezentate în cadrul Conferinței Internaționale a Școlii Doctorale IOSUD Galati, 2-3 iunie 2016, Universitatea "Dunărea de Jos‛ din Galați, Facultatea de Litere.
Dedicated to the dissemination of scholarly and professional information, Purdue University Press... more Dedicated to the dissemination of scholarly and professional information, Purdue University Press selects, develops, and distributes quality resources in several key subject areas for which its parent university is famous, including business, technology, health, veterinary medicine, and other selected disciplines in the humanities and sciences. CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, the peer-reviewed, full-text, and open-access learned journal in the humanities and social sciences, publishes new scholarship following tenets of the discipline of comparative literature and the field of cultural studies designated as "comparative cultural studies." Publications in the journal are indexed in the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (Chadwyck-Healey), the Arts and Humanities Citation Index (Thomson Reuters ISI), the Humanities Index (Wilson), Humanities International Complete (EBSCO), the International Bibliography of the Modern Language Association of America, and Scopus (Elsevier). The journal is affiliated with the Purdue University Press monograph series of Books in Comparative Cultural Studies. Contact:
In her article "Memory and identity-focused narratives in Tănase's 'lived book'&... more In her article "Memory and identity-focused narratives in Tănase's 'lived book'" Nicoleta Ifrim analyses România mea (My Romania), Virgil Tănase's first book published after the fall of Ceausescu's regime, a collection of interviews in which personal history is fictionalized according to the narrative rules of a "spoken book." The text is representative for the Eastern intellectual travelling to the West, carrying out his own personal post-totalitarian traumas now mirrored in a self-oriented
Our study descriptively presents the main articles published in 'Scânteia tineretului' (1968) in ... more Our study descriptively presents the main articles published in 'Scânteia tineretului' (1968) in order to grasp the ideological lines coordinating the literary production of the time.
Our study presents in detail the main articles published in 'Scânteia tineretului' (1969) in orde... more Our study presents in detail the main articles published in 'Scânteia tineretului' (1969) in order to portray the totalitarian doctrine influencing literature and critical discourse of 1969.
Volume 19 (2017) Issue 2 Article 4 Memory and identity-focused narratives in Tănase's 'lived book... more Volume 19 (2017) Issue 2 Article 4 Memory and identity-focused narratives in Tănase's 'lived book' Memory and identity-focused narratives in T nase's 'lived book'
The Romanian post-communist culture witnesses a process of value re-definition within which the m... more The Romanian post-communist culture witnesses a process of value re-definition within which the memory of the totalitarian experience is mediated through identity-focused literary discourses mirroring the bias between two opposing topoi: the Southeastern space and the West, both of them being interiorized as the "periphery ego" legitimizes its writing in relation with Otherness. The experience of "travelling aboard" entails an existential quest during which Romanianness is constantly called in question: the "ego-graphic" writings are coping with the issue of cultural identity by means of recognition process (Charles Taylor, 1994) enabling the identity-otherness interchangeable game.
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